5/15/2025 10:35:06 PM EPA Announces It Will Keep Drinking Water Limits for PFOA and PFOS, But Rescind Limits for Four Other PFAS Compounds By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Hayleigh Shobar Don Sobelman +1 more... Show less On May 14, 2025, EPA issued a news release (available here) stating that the agency will maintain the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)...
5/14/2025 11:35:07 PM New York Legislature Looking to Expand Restrictions on Severance Offers By Kevin Jones The New York legislature may soon pass the “No Severance Ultimatums Act,” which would require all employment severance agreements except...
5/14/2025 5:08:09 PM Trademark Applications Filed on an Intent-To-Use Basis Can Be Vulnerable To Challenge By Nate Garhart In filing to register a trademark on an “intent-to-use” basis, the applicant must verify that it has a good faith “bona fide intention to...
5/14/2025 12:08:58 AM Employers Must Be Vigilant to Protect Against Security Risks from Fraudulent Hires By Rebecca Stephens The FBI is warning employers about increasing security risks from fraudulent job applications, resulting in hackers infiltrating...
5/13/2025 4:14:48 PM Copyright Office Weighs in on Use of Copryighted Works for LLM Training By Nate Garhart A day before the firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, the third installment of the office's series of reports on copyright...
5/12/2025 7:54:09 PM EPA Announces Interim Rule Further Delaying TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting by Nine Months By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On May 12, 2025, EPA announced that it will publish an interim rule further delaying by nine months the one-time reporting required under...
5/12/2025 4:24:43 PM In Limited Cases, Foreign Trademarks Can Affect U.S. Registration Rights By Nate Garhart It is a basic tenet of trademark law that rights are jurisdictional. Trademark owners only have rights in the mark in the jurisdictions...
5/8/2025 7:44:31 PM With Trademark Claims Against Gray Market Goods, the Devil Is in the Details By Nate Garhart When a third party purchases a manufacturer's goods intended for distribution outside of the U.S., and then imports those goods into and...
5/7/2025 10:41:36 PM District Court Issues Permanent Injunction Enjoining Enforcement of Prop 65 Warning Requirements for Dietary Acrylamide By Chris Rendall-Jackson On May 2, 2025, the Eastern District of California found that Prop 65 warning requirements for dietary acrylamide violate the First...
4/29/2025 11:25:05 PM Comment Period Extended Again for Federal PFOA/PFOS Risk Assessment for Sewage Sludge Applied to Agricultural Land as Fertilizer By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman Interested parties — including businesses raising crops or animals on agricultural and ranch lands potentially impacted by PFAS in...
4/21/2025 5:42:28 PM California Legislation Banning Wide Range of PFAS-Containing Products (SB 682) Moves Forward in Senate Committees By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman The California Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee recently passed, as amended, SB 682, and referred the bill to the Senate...
4/14/2025 9:12:53 PM Industrial Company Files Action Challenging EPA Disclosure of Confidential Business Information Submitted to EPA During Enforcement Action Proceedings By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On April 2, 2025, Inhance Technologies LLC initiated an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—Inhance...